Tools, gear & setup

Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) — rock-solid developer workstation environment.

Intel Core i7-1065G7 (4 Cores, 8 Threads) with optimized governors.

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 2GB VRAM — tuned with ANGLE and NVIDIA PRIME Offload for 60 fps Remotion video rendering.

16 GB DDR4 Dual-Channel RAM with 512 GB high-speed NVMe SSD.

Calibrated IPS external monitor set to accurate sRGB for 4:5 and 9:16 social video grading.

MikroTik hEX (RB750Gr3) running RouterOS v7 with Dual-WAN failover, mangle rules, and queue trees.

Dedicated Gigabit switch bench for testing network topologies and isolated VLAN namespaces.

Custom-built 12V LiFePO4 DC-UPS delivering zero relay-switch delay for ONU and router during load-shedding.

Zsh + tmux for persistent session management across local terminal windows.

Cursor and VS Code with Vim keybindings; Antigravity Agentic IDE for autonomous coding.

Node.js 22 LTS (managed via Volta), Python 3.12 (venv), and pure Bash scripts.

Docker Engine, Docker Compose v2, and custom Linux systemd services (thesabbirai.service).

PostgreSQL 17, Neon Serverless Postgres, SQLite/libSQL, and Drizzle ORM.

Remotion 4.x (React 19 + TypeScript) rendering 1080x1350 @ 60 fps with zero visual degradation.

Ollama running quantized Qwen2.5 and DeepSeek models locally with zero cloud API token leaks.

faster-whisper (large-v3-turbo cached) and librosa for precise speech onset and syllable alignment.

Web Audio API zero-asset DSP synthesizers (sound.ts) and CC0 tactile sound design.